 here we are at a vertical mine shaft it's a copper mine there is a piece of ladder here but i won't trust it it's just sitting there and the rungs are broken and doesn't look so good so we're going to just repel this first part and we'll see what shape the ladders are in after that if we need to we've got much more rope here we can drop down but right now we've just down to the first landing so we've put our anchor up on this one inch steel rod that's part of the um head frame here holding the timbers together and we backed it up to another one behind here so that should be good and this will give us enough length to come up and be able to get back up on stand on the platform here all right ready ready good luck be careful looks like everything's holding okay if you see a hawk coming after me holler at it because there's a big nest down here i know it's huge probably about a i don't know it's like three feet diameter of sticks okay i'm looking back up that's where that nest is and then look at all the branches that they've pulled in that have dropped off think of the work that that bird did on this nest i'll need to have all of those fall in so anyway i'm here at the top of a skip this looks like a dump pocket it's got a nice steel plate in the back there and the skip would come up and dump right down to that chute down there and then looking this way it goes down about another oh i don't know 70 60 70 feet and then it looks like it flattens out quite a bit because we're vertical right here and then it looks like it flattens out quite a bit maybe two or 45 or so so i'm one ladder section below that where the top of the skip rail curve like that and here's the bottom of that chute that was the dump pocket and here's where it comes out and now this must have been a haulage of some sort that bird has a lot of sticks doesn't he watch out behind you okay we're going to take it right off of the vertical shaft comes up to some big shoots there's a huge hanging wall on there right here it's like possibly an or pass and then a big chute behind here heavy duty stuff isn't it 250 s3 and we're going to walk gingerly because it's kind of dusty great powdery there's a ladder a well used ladder oh man that does go way up there i wonder what that is boy that's kind of a lot of use hasn't it some more chutes several chutes must be some big stoves up above us look out of the look out of the orchard we're whacking this post i'm in a big hole there all right i suppose that's so you can latch it and that's a heavy duty door that's full uh full dimension lumber look at the size of those two by fours big stuff i'm not sure what this thing is obviously got some purpose four chutes you can see part of the mineral vein up behind the the lagging there something tried to crash you there didn't it they must have taken this whole vein out yeah it could be looks brand new in there yep it's manly well the dust isn't kicking up too bad now look at this cribbing with the gobbling in it they stuck a ladder up there oh boy they used a ladder for part of it look at that pressure here oh yeah a lot of pressure oh yeah well look at that that's compressed look at this huge hanging wall it looks like it's caved in it you don't think so oh yeah maybe not it's like it ended there it's possible why the stuff's under some pressure isn't it that was a pretty wide vein that's gotta be 15 feet 12 15 feet from here oh yeah okay here we are back to the vertical shaft we came down those faces a couple of faces there's any dates anywhere all right let's go this way this looks like it splits already there's some kind of something in pencil there's more of the vein okay let's let's this probably goes around in the loop I'm guessing who knows a huge pillar in the middle here why these are all buckled too aren't they it's generally a pretty good shape though despite being under tremendous pressure buckled all these timbers so I wouldn't go doing pull-ups on one of those there's another chute so there are obviously some some stopes up above us that's got its gates in there I can't get it out yeah the amount of wood is crazy s50 250 s2 that's pretty neat it's like somebody broke through the wall here yeah I think this must look round I don't know we'll keep going here it definitely goes through look at the blue over there wow this is a pretty cool mine isn't it there was track throughout all this oh boy what do we have here the ladders and then we double compartment shaft look at this is natural timber oh yeah for a yep look at all the rounds up in there okay so this is the face of this I like the way it looks where they've fueled that bark almost looks like you would use that in a structure in a side of a nice house yep the log cabin let's go back and go through that hole I guess not an ore pass but a man pass look at the gob wall out of out of uh what you call it copper you don't see that too often do you so that ends there okay we've kind of looped back towards the main shaft now from over that way and that's straight in yeah big angle still this big pillar they left in here wow those are some hinges all right holy buck it's the size of those things go put your hand up there we it's gotta be they gotta be a foot on each side they gotta be a foot long at least huh wow open the door once in here nice box yeah there's a nice box you can live in here that was a just right box whatever that is I'll have to read it later I took a photo of it I'm packing I know it was like for a bearing you know for a seal and a shaft or something it's like a table and some uh yeah some pocket shells in the end of the table here this doesn't resemble the traditional fuse table but there is a spool here I mean a spindle that would have held a spool it looks like and then maybe they would have done their cutting on here for their fuses measured it out some more that's pretty nifty this is heading back towards the shaft now we looped around that center big um so here's the other way we looped around this big center part and this is heading back towards the the ladders in the shaft there's some load counts but I think first we have a ways to go down here don't we down here doesn't look too terrible doesn't this first ladder's pretty straight and about probably almost 20 feet I think we can do it ladder seems pretty good good looks like it goes straight down and flans all a little bit I'll hit the next ladder okay okay coming Julie watch that last step don't get your shoe on the nail though oh you did it see what I mean oh yeah I did the same thing one more step down looks like there was a another hoist down here or some sort to go from this this step down look at the big uh big hinges again but look at the big pin yeah that's cool oh my gosh want to open that up once see how it looks we're ladders oh boy oh and it gets deeper oh as far as I can see down there that's how long we've done so look what's right over here oh there's the skip car without any wheels but we can go look at it this is what we just came down don't ladders when they see that top ladder is vertical but from here you'd swear it was leaning back it's an optical illusion that happens like that when you're doing ladders and there's a dead bird over there oh yeah it's like a raven or a possibly a vulture no it looks like a raven than that so this is a skip car and the wheels are all gone all four of them but this would have run up the uh the track right behind us that we just came down it's nicely riveted it's still in beautiful shape except for the wheels are missing that's a pretty big one too actually okay let's go this way once yeah what does that say silver bar silver bar paint fruit it's showing fruit I know but it's a swab bucket I know well Bartlett pairs silver bar pairs that's a big bucket of pairs silver bar pairs there's a big spike next to it size that thing that's about uh I don't know how many penny that is 30 yeah well let's follow this looks like they had some ventilation down here you know there's some big mud in there I don't know what this was for maybe they just took that up here's a ventilation they got a well like a 10 or 12 inch round pipe yeah that's one of our cable guides yeah I don't know if it should be sitting there or not no probably not leaning up against it you fall on your toe that'll wreck your day another door big door they had this one sealed up pretty good with some rag stuffed in there another one with a big hole in it I think the hole is so you can reach through and you reach through here from the other side right oh here's a turning plate for the for this intersection instead of having a switch this is like a four-way intersection here that's just a short siding but it looks like it goes that way and to the left so so you can take your car and just spin it on this plate and you can redirect it in do any direction you want let's keep going straight this is a lot of mine isn't it yeah somebody's lunch yeah there's a piece of trackly in there is it standing on it oh on the top and on the side it's upside down that's the top that's the top some initials and then looting I've never seen anybody mark reel on the top yeah because it's gonna wear off maybe it's just a shipping deal it's like a little ground full there oh there's a nice uh carbide can still got the blue on it union carbide usually anyway well you wouldn't want this one to fall on you would you man that would hurt what does it say in there mine lamp oh yeah oh but the other side can you go spin it around there is the union carbide cool all right we're moving on past the union carbide can goes up into the stoves there's a big shoot we just passed a lot of track ties all the track has been taken out okay so far and some of these are uh natural timbers like this one and some are milled lumber there's another table up here or something it's the face over that way yeah another hole there's a little piece of ladder over there well I don't see any reason to go down this little hole we've got more ladders to go down possibly people have been digging their way in this more recently than when this mine was being officially worked doesn't it you see these little areas here yeah a lot of cool minerals in the world okay heading back towards the main shaft okay here's back to the turning plate we came from that way where the door is and let's take the right we didn't go this way yet oh look at the blue oops well that ladder doesn't go anywhere look at the minerals my goodness that's amazing in the colors it's almost black it's so blue down in there in that crevice all right let's catch up with you here's another turning plate huh what's this it's just kind of back the way we came from where this tangles all around doesn't it there's a small bucket with a tobacco can in it here's a ladder going back up well I think this is the uh that's the one we looked down earlier okay moving past that area we're the same shoots upon shoots upon shoots and then I see the I see the uh face over here now that's way up you can see up into the stove it's a clean mine isn't it yeah it doesn't really smell or anything no it's nice then here's the face of this all right let's go we gotta go uh we gotta go back to that plate we gotta go back to the main shaft and go the other way okay here we are back to this second turning plate that we saw we never went straight this way oh boy I feel air here cold air kind of wild mine isn't it here's another hoist uh support I don't know what happens after the end of this ladder can you get down there let's finish this out here there's more uh what does this say oh here really it's upside down pumpkin pumpkin huh oh look at that interesting gobbling well it's almost like a work of art all the different colors what a minerally area oh yeah a wood roller a wood cable guide that's cool yes it is is it still spin of course it does okay let's go back and go the other way from the main shaft and this time we're really going to do it there's another heavy-duty box here they must have kept something in there that they wanted secured like primers maybe something that they didn't want to blow okay here we are back to this first turning plate that we saw the door should be right here yep and then the uh the main shaft should be right up here somewhere yep there's the latch there's the skip car do we look this way okay there's the skip car there's the main shaft there's that door we opened now let's go explore this way I see some fuel cans one's got a pretty good label on it still aristo motor oil union oil of california it's pretty neat and it looks like a big carbide top right below you too to see union carbide on it they usually do that can is pretty cool you don't see a lot of cans like that with good labels on them i'm usually gonna rust it off or something there's another door it's almost identical to the one we came to does it open no but it's oh that looks like it's float in from somewhere something caved okay no more that way well we could go down if we wanted to okay want to can you open that again need help no i don't really got the door open okay here we go down we go that is pretty good so far okay looks like it gets deeper there she is that's a long ways on that's a lot of steps there it is and there's still a lot more down this way as far as you can see a lot of track in this one oh there's a pretty cool dynamite box here it's not complete but it's a Hercules it's an older one that has these steel straps on it and then look it has one it has a bar on it for a lifting bar yeah yeah that's pretty cool i don't know what that rack is for obviously for something is this a stemming rod yeah where what could be looks like it done it this is for packing their dynamite into the drill holes for stemming the hole so the charges doesn't come up back out the hole looks like it has a date on there April 15th of 1920 something i can't really read it we'll have to look at the picture that we just took kind of cool look left hand rules for Julie still this huge hanging wall there's a big chute gobbling wall yeah it does to me looks like it ends right there oh is that a crusty looking thing so i peeked around the corner there that's the end of that it doesn't do anything this is a big cave so i didn't want to go fooling around in there okay back to the other way this level isn't as big as the upper ones so far oh yeah look at that another door or a blocker down there here's back to the shaft oh yeah there's some more dynamite box parts that might be part of that one over that we were just looking at a mess of track here so i need a deeper you're going to mine's kind of the more messy they get with stuff laying around i suppose it's easier to pull things out of the upper levels track and stuff reuse it i had a chunk down here here's another big chute full of blue rocks another man way up to the next level or a sub level i don't know maybe just up into the stove because the ladder we came down was a lot longer than that one was and here's the end of this one so that was the third level that we were just down right right so i stopped a little ways down that last set of ladders tom's way down there and he's telling me to wait he's not sure it's there's a level plus the ladders are pretty beat up he's pretty far down there okay i'm all the way down into the sump which is the very bottom of this shaft and there's nothing down here you can see it has been flooded before look at the water line so right where i'm standing it's been about up to my head so that was a good 150 feet really you shine your light a little bit somewhere okay i don't know why they do that unless they follow the rain down here but it always seems like they make these shafts way deeper than what you know there's no level down here so okay back up we go looks like a little pulley there that the cable to ring the bell for the hoist operator would have run on that pulley all right here it comes from the bottom of the mine all the way down there and all I do was a sump now you know so that's going to do it for this one you guys thanks for watching we'll see you on our next adventure yeah